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Welsh Assembly Results
Party Welsh Labour Plaid Cymru Welsh Conservative UKIP Wales Welsh Liberal Democrat
Seats 29 12 11 7 1
Change −1 +1 −3 +7 −4

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Arfon

Welsh Assembly constituency Region - North Wales
Result: PC HOLD

Scoreboard

Party Candidates Votes % Net percentage change in seats
Party

PC

Plaid Cymru

 Candidates Sian Gwenllian Votes 10,962 54.8% Net percentage change in seats −1.9
Party

LAB

Welsh Labour

 Candidates Sion Jones Votes 6,800 34.0% Net percentage change in seats +7.8
Party

CON

Welsh Conservative

 Candidates Martin Peet Votes 1,655 8.3% Net percentage change in seats −4.2
Party

LD

Welsh Liberal Democrat

 Candidates Sara Lloyd Williams Votes 577 2.9% Net percentage change in seats −1.6

Change compared with 2011

Turnout and Majority

Plaid Cymru Majority

4,162

Turnout

50.9%

Vote share

Party %
Plaid Cymru 54.8
Welsh Labour 34.0
Welsh Conservative 8.3
Welsh Liberal Democrat 2.9

Vote share change since 2011

−%
+%
Welsh Labour
+7.8
Welsh Liberal Democrat
−1.6
Plaid Cymru
−1.9
Welsh Conservative
−4.2
Wales Constituencies and Regions A-Z

Constituency Profile

Arfon is situated in north-west Wales.

It is based around the historic town of Caernarfon - site of the investiture of the Prince of Wales in 1969 - and the university city of Bangor. Tourism and the public sector are major employers, and there is also a thriving media sector based around Bangor. The high student population means the seat has a different demographic profile to other constituencies on the north Wales coast - 17% of the population are aged 65 or over, compared to 26% in neighbouring Aberconwy.

At Westminster, the old Caernarfon seat had been a Plaid Cymru stronghold since it was won by Dafydd Wigley in the February 1974 election. The new Arfon constituency was created in time for the 2007 Assembly elections. Plaid Cymru's Alun Ffred Jones won the seat then with 52% of the vote. In 2011, he won it again for Plaid Cymru with 56% of the vote. Labour came second with 26%, the Conservatives were third with 12% and the Liberal Democrats fourth with 4%.

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